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For stochastic non-equilibrium dynamics like a Langevin equation for a colloidal particle or a master equation for discrete states, entropy production along a single trajectory is studied. It involves both genuine particle entropy and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2012-05-21 Udo Seifert

A polymer chain pinned in space exerts a fluctuating force on the pin point in thermal equilibrium. The average of such fluctuating force is well understood from statistical mechanics as an entropic force, but little is known about the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-07-22 James T. Waters , Harold D. Kim

On general grounds, a nonequilibrium temperature can be consistently defined from generalized fluctuation-dissipation relations only if it is independent of the observable considered. We argue that the dependence on the choice of observable…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-04-22 Kirsten Martens , Eric Bertin , Michel Droz

A rigorous derivation of nonequilibrium entropy production via the path-integral formalism is presented. Entropy production is defined as the entropy change piled in a heat reservoir as a result of a nonequilibrium thermodynamic process. It…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-10-28 Chulan Kwon

Entropic Dynamics is a framework in which dynamical laws such as those that arise in physics are derived as an application of entropic methods of inference. No underlying action principle is postulated. Instead, the dynamics is driven by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-02-23 Ariel Caticha

The total entropy production generated by the dynamics of an externally driven systems exchanging energy and matter with multiple reservoirs and described by a master equation is expressed as the sum of three contributions, each…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-01 Massimiliano Esposito , Upendra Harbola , Shaul Mukamel

Fluctuation theorems are key to understanding both fundamental and applied aspects of non-equilibrium thermodynamics of small systems. We study the non-Markovian entropy production fluctuation theorem for the diffusion process of charged…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-06 K. S. Rodríguez-Vigil , M. A. Bastarrachea-Magnani , J. I. Jiménez-Aquino

A thermodynamic-like formalism is developed for superstatistical systems based on conditional entropies. This theory takes into account large-scale variations of intensive variables of systems in nonequilibrium stationary states. Ordinary…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-13 Sumiyoshi Abe , Christian Beck , E. G. D. Cohen

In this paper, it is shown that the relative entropy is an increasing function of time in both the linear regime and the non-linear regime during the large scale structure formation in cosmology.

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Cheng-Yi Sun , De-Hai Zhang

Aging is a universal consequence of life, yet researchers have identified no universal theme. This manuscript considers aging from the perspective of entropy, wherein things fall apart. We first examine biological information change as a…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-13 Stephan Baehr , Hans Baehr

Standard results for the fluctuations of thermodynamic quantities are derived under the assumption of sampling identical systems that are in different, not fully equilibrated states. These results apply to fluctuations with time in a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. A. Serota

In this work, the role of a time-varying Newton constant under the scale-dependent approach is investigated in the thermodynamics of the Friedman equations. In particular, we show that the extended Friedman equations can be derived either…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2021-06-16 Pedro Bargueno , Ernesto Contreras , Angel Rincon

Contrary to our immediate and vivid sensation of past, present, and future as continually shifting non-relational modalities, time remains as tenseless and relational as space in all of the established theories of fundamental physics. Here…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-25 Joy Christian

In this study, we establish a connection between timelike and spacelike entanglement entropy. We show that timelike entanglement entropy is closely related to spacelike entanglement entropy and its temporal derivative. For a broad class of…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2026-01-01 Wu-zhong Guo , Song He , Yu-Xuan Zhang

We consider an explicit example of a process, where the entropy carried by radiation through an accelerating two-plane is proportional to the decrease in the area of that two-plane even when the two-plane is not a part of any horizon of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Jarmo Makela

I explore the possibility that the laws of physics might be laws of inference rather than laws of nature. What sort of dynamics can one derive from well-established rules of inference? Specifically, I ask: Given relevant information…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-11-07 Ariel Caticha

Field equations in four order derivatives with respect to time and space coordinates based on modified classic relativistic energy of the fractal theory of time and space are received. It is shown appearing of new spin characteristics and…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 L. Ya. Kobelev

We analyze the physical meaning of fluctuations of the phase space contraction rate, that we also call entropy creation rate, and its observability in space-time intermittency phenomena. For concreteness we consider a Navier-Stokes fluid.

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2008-02-26 Giovanni Gallavotti

We introduce the violation fraction $\upsilon$ as the cumulative fraction of time that a mesoscopic system spends consuming entropy at a single trajectory in phase space. We show that the fluctuations of this quantity are described in terms…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2014-05-19 Reinaldo García-García , Daniel Domínguez

We give meaning to the first and second laws of thermodynamics in case of mesoscopic out-of-equilibrium systems which are driven by diffusion processes. The notion of the entropy production is analyzed. The role of the Helmholtz extremum…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2008-11-26 Piotr Garbaczewski